Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents and Commonly Presumed Truths
London: T.H. (printer) for Edward Dod, 1646. First Edition. Quarto. Item #021974
386pp., Table of contents listed for each book. Thomas Browne had been recognized for the first appearance in English of such words as electricity, medical, suicide, compensate, prairie, coexistence, carnivorous, migrant, and ferocious. He was also considered by his contemporaries to be a scientist, naturalist, or natural philosopher. Title page with two tears repaired and laid down over paper. with marginal chipping, license leaf browned, first few leaves with foxing or browning, toning to remainder of leaves, rebound in full dark brown leather retaining the original red morocco spine label gilt, spine evenly changed to lighter shade of brown, endpapers renewed, gutter repair to first and last few leaves, text mostly clean and quite readable.
Price: $550.00